Salon.com > DePaul http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 It may be illegal to Instagram your ballot http://www.salon.com/2012/11/06/it_may_be_illegal_to_instagram_your_ballot/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/06/it_may_be_illegal_to_instagram_your_ballot/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13064220 Proud voters are already posting photos of their ballots on Instagram—sometimes with the names of their chosen candidates filled in. But before you snap a shot of your vote, you might want to check your state laws. As the Citizen Media Law Project points out as part of their guide to documenting the 2012 election, showing your marked ballot to other people is actually illegal in many states. 

Laws against displaying your ballot are motivated by concerns about vote buying, since voters being bribed might need to be prove they voted a certain way.

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